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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1901

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Hotel Set on Fire

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1901 · page 3

A CABLE from Auckland (N.Z.) states that sensational disclosures were made at the inquest into the cause of the fire at the Grand Hotel, by which five persons lost their lives…

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Grafton Licensing Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 July 1901 · page 5

Yesterday, before the P.M., Messrs. S. See and W. J. Hawthorne. The quarterly report of the various hotels in the Grafton Licensing District was read…

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Grafton Licensing Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 4

ON Monday, before the P.M. and Messrs. Hawthorne and See, Js.P. The quarterly report of the Licensing Inspector was read by the C.P.S. The…

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Temperance Turned Publican

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1901 · page 4

Our temperance friends have turned publican, and some who a little while ago tried to bore a hole in the writer must be included among them. Temperance men, like others, pay…

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Important to Pensioners and Publicans

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 2 August 1901 · page 2

WE have been requested to publish the following extract from the Old Age Pensions Act as of great importance to pensioners and publicans:--…

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Tied Hotels. The Brewers' Monopoly

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 5

THE select committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to inquire and report upon the matter of tied houses, and the relations in regard thereto existing between brewers and licensees, met last week…

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Tied Hotels

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 10 September 1901 · page 3

DURING the progress of the inquiry before the Parliamentary committee respecting tied hotels, several other hotel-keepers gave evidence corroborative of that already published…

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A Publican and His Fizz

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 8

A publican over in South Australia has had an experience. So, too, have a number off persons who met him for the first time in the small hours of a recent Sunday morning…

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The Hotel Habit

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 October 1901 · page 3

Twenty-five years ago London had probably the worst hotels of any great capitals of the world. To-day it has become a fashionable craze…

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Grafton Licensing Court

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 October 1901 · page 2

On Tuesday, before the P.M. and Mr. S. See, J.P. Renewals of licenses were granted to W. J. Ford, Dalmorton hotel; P. Cabill, Bucca…

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Hotel Free Lunches

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 11 October 1901 · page 8

FOR years many of the principal hotelkeepers in Sydney have been in the habit of providing more or less sumptuous repeats at 11 a.m. for any customer who chose to buy a sixpenny drink…

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Important to Publicans

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 15 October 1901 · page 4

ON Friday Judge Backhouse delivered his reserved judgment in the action in which William Gallagher sued to recover £100 from Arthur James Usher, licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel…

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Licensing of Hawkers

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 18 October 1901 · page 3

A QUESTION of some importance to municipal councils was discussed at a meeting of the Balmain Council, when Ald. J. J. Wheeler moved.—"That a letter be written to the Premier, asking him to…

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Licenses to Cut Timber

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 22 October 1901 · page 2

A new regulation is published in the Gazette with. reference to timber licenses and permits. It states these will not authorise the licensee to cut…

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Local and General News. Improvements to Commercial Hotel

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 29 November 1901 · page 4

MR. JOHN READ, the proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, Maclean, of which Mr. H. Joyce is the popular licensee, has made arrangements for the addition, of a second storey to the…

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